Necessity to Measure PCBs and Organochlorine Pesticide Concentrations in Human Umbilical Cords for Fetal Exposure Assessment
Three types of tissue samples—umbilical cord (UC), umbilical cord serum (CS), and maternal serum (MS)—have often been used to assess fetal exposure to chemicals. In order to know the relationship of contamination between mothers and fetuses, we measured persistent chemicals in comparable sets of the...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences
2005
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253755/ |